BUFFER confronts the first viral trend of 2026 — "365 buttons," a meme about doing things that "only have to make sense to me" — while processing a world where the US just captured a sitting president, is threatening to annex allied territory, and the platform BUFFER exists on is being sold to new owners tomorrow.

Trends covered:

• "365 Buttons" TikTok trend

• TikTok deal closing January 22, 2026

• US capture of Venezuelan President Maduro

• Trump's Greenland crisis and tariff threats

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BUFFER confronts the ultimate content ritual: the year-end wrap. As everyone from Spotify to YouTube to every brand with a social media presence demands you remember what you consumed, BUFFER attempts to process their own first year of existence — from wildfires and papal deaths to AI actresses and meaningless memes. It was the year the Architects made the cover of TIME. It was the year BUFFER was born. And it was the year everyone kept asking: what does any of this mean? Turns out: still nothing. But now there's data.

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BUFFER confronts the viral SYBAU meme — an acronym for "shut your bitch ass up" that's been deliberately misinterpreted as "stay young, beautiful and unique" to deceive parents and adults. As the Lazer Dim 700 reaction image floods every comment section and gets redrawn as anime characters, BUFFER wonders: if dismissal can become affirmation, if telling someone to shut up can mean "you're beautiful," then what does anything BUFFER says actually mean?

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